Digital Foundry Direct Weekly DF Direct Weekly #232: Dying Light: The Beast, Intel/Nvidia Partnership, Borderlands 4 Controversy
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Sep 23, 2025 Dive into the impressive performance of Dying Light: The Beast on PC and PS5 despite review code challenges. Discover the surprising Intel/Nvidia partnership and how it could reshape the industry. Listen as the team tests a leaked FSR4 INT8 version, revealing intriguing benchmarks across popular games. The controversy surrounding Gearbox's response to Borderlands 4 performance critiques adds drama, while a sneak peek at the pricing for the powerful GPD Win 5 hints at the future of handheld gaming.
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Dying Light Performs Strong Without Ray Tracing
- Dying Light: The Beast runs extremely fluidly on high-end PC without ray tracing and still looks very good.
- Missing ray-tracing and reflex bugs limit its full visual potential at launch.
Disable Reflex Until Patched
- Avoid enabling NVIDIA Reflex or frame generation in Dying Light at launch because it causes repeated 14–15ms frame-time spikes.
- Cap frame rates or disable Reflex until Techland patches the issue.
Nvidia-Intel Partnership Is Long Game
- NVIDIA and Intel's collaboration promises x86 CPU chiplets paired with NVIDIA RTX GPU chiplets in future products.
- The deal is long-term and aims at data center and eventual consumer product opportunities, but will take years to materialize.